Where Water Becomes Wine

On Faith and Spirituality: What Is The Bible For?

Everything in our world requires a manual to understand it.

The Bible is the written evidence, and instruction book, to understand God.

Surely if there is a God, he’d impress on his creation to write about him, yes?
Some people believe in the Mystical forces of Nature communing with us. Through ancestors, through nature, through the elements around us– why wouldn’t the Creator of the Universe whisper to the hearts willing to hear him? Why couldn’t we attribute the callings and impressions to BE from that Creator?

The bible records several key moments when Man communed intimately with God, and God reached out to Man.

In recent centuries, Science and philosophy has done a number on drawing mankind away from the concept of God. The need for God.

The bible is not a history book. Or a science book.

It has one purpose. That purpose is to study and understand the amazing, powerful El who has created all things, lives and breathes in all things, and to equip the followers of Christ with what they need to understand.

It is foolishness, Paul states in Corinthians. It doesn’t make a lot of sense that we’re stuck here on the planet, with an invisible God somewhere across the Universe, watching over us. And the only way to get to this God is by believing in Him and His son, Jesus Christ.
In the book of Job, that God, somewhere across the Universe, stands up and says WHO are YOU – little man – that you can know me? ((Job 39-41))

Job was without the bible. He had the oral traditions of his fathers, and his Faith.
For 6,000 years, people have been believing in God. For 6,000 years they’ve been passing down the oral and written accounts of that God. And in the early turn of a new Era, less than 2,000 years ago, it was decided that God’s word would be in the hands of the people. He moved on the hearts of man, and together they decided which written scripts, carefully preserved through years and years of re-recording, would end up canonized to become what we call today, The Holy Bible. The Word Of God.

One, CONSISTENT invisible being, after shedding the blood of his own son, gave mankind a book so they could learn about Him, get to know Him. Understand Him-even if just a little-and come back to Him and his undying love.

His words are consistent. Sin separates us from Him. But following hard and fast after Him is enough to save our broken souls.

In our broken, hurting world, it’s obvious none of the religions we’ve established for ourselves are getting us anywhere. Perhaps if we turned Religion aside, and just spend time studying the Bible, taking it at Face Value for what it is – the written account of the Creator of the Universe, and treated it as the Manual to understanding God, we could finally grasp a handle on Hope. On what is Right, and what is Wrong.

Stop picking and choosing what you want to read, and contorting it into reasons why you DON’T want to follow God. If you truly want to know, then read beyond the book of Dueteronomy. Read the books of the prophets. Read the New Testament. Read the first four books of the New Testament. Anybody can pick up a manual, read the first five chapters, and claim they understand the whole picture.

That’s not what the Bible was designed for. The Bible was designed to study. To cross reference. To examine. To underline. To search. To know.

And God says you don’t need more scripture beyond that book to know who he is. Because HE established the writing of it.

Either you take it. Or you leave it. It’s a personal biography of a great and mighty God, who exists beyond the Universe. And it’s there. For you.
Don’t know where to start? Start with Jesus. Start with Ephesians. Start with Romans. Start with Proverbs. Start with someone you know. Start alone. Wherever you start, don’t let what you’ve already decided get in the way.
Read it for yourself. God is so much more than the box Liberal America has Him in.
Discover it for yourself. You never know what will come from opening the pages.